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91短视频 100th Commencement ceremony is Sunday, May 6, at 1 p.m. on the front lawn. The ceremony will be livestreamed on the university website.聽It will also be available .

Events begin Friday, May 4, with seminary baccalaureate.聽Several departmental receptions, as well as commissioning and pinning ceremonies, will be hosted. For complete details, visit .

Many undergraduates wear stoles, or vestments, at Commencement that are symbolic of their cross-cultural studies, a graduation requirement, or of their聽heritage, roots within one or various communities, or citizenship. These stoles were presented at the third annual Donning of the Kente ceremony earlier this month.

Ten students will wear Cords of Distinction聽that honor their 鈥渟ignificant and verifiable impact鈥� on the university and on student life, as well as contribution to the community and embodiment of 91短视频’s shared values. Read more about this distinguished group.

Nobel Laureate to give Commencement address

The 2018 Commencement address will be given by alumna and 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee.

In recognition of her extraordinary achievement in peacebuilding and social justice work, 91短视频 will award Gbowee its inaugural honorary Doctor of Justice degree.

鈥淲e are thrilled that our own graduate, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee, will offer the commencement address in our centennial year, and on behalf of the 91短视频 Board of Trustees, I look forward to the honor of bestowing upon her our first honorary doctorate of justice,鈥� said President Susan Schultz Huxman.聽“As her inspirational work and message continue to be shared around the world, she is most deserving of this recognition from her alma mater.鈥�

Gbowee earned a from 91短视频鈥檚 (CJP) in 2007.

Gbowee鈥檚 involvement in the peace movement began in the late 1990s, when she began volunteering with a trauma healing program in Liberia鈥檚 war-torn capital, Monrovia. Within a few years, Gbowee had become a leader of a grassroots women鈥檚 movement, the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. Using demonstrations, sit-ins and other nonviolent tactics, the group eventually forced the country鈥檚 warring factions to negotiate and sign a peace agreement in 2003.

For her work in mobilizing women to help stop the Liberian Civil War, she shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female African head of state, and Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni peace activist.

Gbowee currently serves as executive director of the Women, Peace and Security Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. She is the founder and current president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa.

Connected to 91短视频

Since earning her degree, Gbowee has been a staunch supporter of her alma mater, most notably through her contributions to a groundbreaking program designed to build capacity and skills of women peacebuilders.

In 2011, Gbowee joined other female peacebuilding leaders from around the world for a consultation that laid the foundation for CJP鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Peacebuilding Leadership Program. Since 2012, fifty women from the South Pacific and Africa have earned graduate certificates in peacebuilding leadership and made great impacts in their local and regional areas.

Also in 2011, months before being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Gbowee returned to 91短视频 to be recognized as the Alumna of the Year.

She delivered her first commencement address at 91短视频 in 2014, when her oldest son Joshua Mensah graduated with a degree in digital media. Gbowee has said that .

Her most recent visit to campus, in 2015, was to support the International Student Organization鈥檚 fundraising activities dedicated to the Ebola outbreak.

Centennial history

View a timeline of 100 years of 91短视频 history.

91短视频鈥檚聽 celebrates the transforming power of Christian higher education steeped in Anabaptist-Mennonite values through the institution’s past, present and future. A variety of events have joined聽alumni, faculty, staff, students, retirees and friends to share memories, commemorate important聽 historic events, appreciate the university’s impact locally and beyond, and prepare for a fulfilling second century.